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Try Aspen fuel in your business with our money back gaurantee
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Use of petrol tools powered by pump petrol is perfectly acceptable practise and has been for years. Currently anyone trying to sue you for being asked to drive a lawnmower filled up at Tesco’s is on a hiding to nothing. -
Makes a pretty pokey self propelled grinder. Comfy to operate too.
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Some people are claiming that's the case, but overall I'm not so sure. It's a noticeable uptick.
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4 sleepers, just holding back the edge of the pond. I'd usually use a duck anchor if possible, simply as it negates any leverage from the length of the post. However, in your example, I'd say it's very unlikely to push over. To push over, a wall needs sideways loading, commonly from wet clay that's been dug and then backfilled. In most other substrates, almost all the force is downwards into the underlying strata. Three or four sleepers high is bugger all, and 4ft steel ipnto virgin ground will hold a lot. The RSJs I replaced in that pond job were leaning, but had been for years. When I pulled them up they were barely a foot into the clay! At the end of the day, if Williams customer is specifying the wall, all he needs to do it buy/hire a post knocker for his digger, turn up and get paid!
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My 8.4 with extra counterweights is happy with a bag on the forks, and will boom out all the way without lifting a wheel so long as the steering is straight. Being able to comfortably handle a bulk bag was my main requirement when shopping, and on balance, I'm happy with it. I never need more lift capacity for what I'm doing. It seems to max out at around 1.2t, so an 800kg bulk bag (with the arm high to position the forks through the bag loops) is towards the top of the working range but never feels sketchy unless on a cross slope.
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I've noticed a large uptick in kit for sale. Things like secondhand loaders, which are normally pretty rare.
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You won’t be able to upgrade a 3.5t van to larger. But iveco in particular do vans up to around 6.5t
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You’ll knock ‘em in enough to hold with a digger and post knocker. Did these a couple weeks back but I was surprised how much resistance I had on them into the clay. Went back and fetched the loader with the p180 but still on got them down a foot more than the 100kg knocker. Plenty enough to hold the bank back however, and like dumper says, you can always add a ground anchor to the top if you can’t knock them far enough down. Vibration may well work better but a vibration unit is a bit specialist, digger posts knockers are everywhere. Just go slow and make adjustments in good time.
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You are referring to the great PPI (payment protection insurance) scandal.
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A decent set of bluetooth headphones have been a game changer for me. It's easy (and often a welcome distraction) to talk a job through with a customer whilst having both hands on the joysticks.
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Depression more like!
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Almost the same thing though isn't it. My heart always sinks when a secretary says 'yes, what do you want to know/how can I help' in relation to a technical query of any kind. Invariably, they don't know shit, and it's just a total waste of everyone's time.
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A photo of the door open would help. The first thing I'd try would be a very small bit of plastic or alloy beading stuck above at a shallow angle and covering the door and then a few inches. It's most likely just rain running down the side panels and then into the crack between the door and the body. A piece of beading on the floor just inside the door might also have the same effect of keeping the runoff out of the compartment.
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It's really obvious when a firm is using a vitual secretary, and I don't think it's a good look.
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OP's widow- if you're reading this, can I have his motorbike? @EdGreen
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Agree on the liability front, you can go Ltd whenever you like though.
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The real benefit is the limited liability. There’s not much in it if anything as regards tax benefits, especially with corporation tax due to rise.
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It’s not grey at all should you actually try to claim.
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No matter what insurance companies and main contractors will try to tell you, you are in the eyes of the law an employee of the main contractor, working under their direction and covered by their insurance.
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What prices were we talking?
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I’ve found it most cost effective to have a dump site on a lower value area of the site. There’s usually a bit at the edge of a nature reserve where nutrient leach won’t matter too much anyway, often an old fire site or in some woods. Find a bit where only Yorkshire fog and brambles are currently growing, somewhere that’s pretty rank anyhow and will never make heath without being scraped off by a foot. Bird nesting is a constant problem. That site is the last refuge for the British field cricket, a red list insect which is critically endangered. Yet disturbing any nesting bird is still an absolute offence. I’ve found the best way is to get a local bird specialist involved in a volunteer role with the nature reserve.
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Yup. Almost all the heather was burnt off by the drought, so an ideal time to refresh it. I left any mature growing plants I saw (probably barely a dozen), and happy to say that most of the burnt off plants are still alive at the base. Usually I'd do this sort of work with the little Kubota, but this tractor let me tackle it side on across the slope. Not burning much more diesel than the 26hp kubota either (maybe 4.5l/hour vs 3.5l/hour for the kubota, which I found surprising. I'll take some proper measurements soon.
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I’d like to know how much people charge for this too.
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Well I’m impressed. Very glad I snapped this tractor up, not seen another since and the hydrostatic gearbox is perfect for my work. I can’t imagine having to clutch and change a lever every time when shunting with the reverse drive flail, for example. Its also so much more efficient when flailing, just ease off when you hit a thick patch and then back on the go pedal once you’re through it. It’s proved incredibly effective for every task I’ve set it to thus far. I’ve a few more bits to do to it (replacing pipes etc and kingpin bushes) but she’s had a full fluid and filter change. Had a couple of other teething issues such as the Lucas switch shorting out but not really the tractors fault and an easy fix.
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